Yahoo Chat Clients
Email me if you know of any clients I am missing from my list.
This is not a list of recommended clients, nor am I saying all these clients are safe to use. I made this as a list of all chat clients I could find. As with any program you download and use you are doing so at your own risk.
Windows Clients
- YahELite by Deepthawt
- YahELite is an unofficial, free, highly efficient and comfortable anti-SPAM chat client that filters out spam bots, clone bots, abusive PMs, flood text, repeated postings and other forms of spam. It also protects you from 'boot codes', 'sound bombs' and other mischief.
- Cheetachat by Merkur
- Share your music and files with friends with CheetaChat's user-friendly file transfer! use CheetaChat's many expressive emotions or create your own for all to see and share; custom graphical avatars, socials, ascii art and more.
- No5 by Number.Five
- Written in C++, webcam, webcam recording, voice, animated smileys, totaly programmable.
- YAM by trolling_around
- A messenger/chat program written in Delphi with many features.
- JAM by Trolling Around
- JAM (Just Another Messenger) is the only true Yahoo messenger replacement. It acts just like a messenger but you can also enter chat with it. Like YahELite it has it's own HTTP server for sharing files and it supports the displaying of both Cheeta's and Y!Mlite's avatars in chat.
- Yazakchat by Zak
- YaZak Chat Client. Un-Bootable Almost, All 64 Yahoo Faces and Voice in PMs Gossip chat, Alerts Time stamped & listed, Fe/Male Icons,Client Id's, AutoCorrect, Symbols, Emote Editor, WEB Cam View.
- Y!Mlite by Craig
- Written in Delphi (a programming language).
- Yahaven by Peter Hart
- A client I've just heard of but not tried.
- Yah-Too by trolling_around
- Another Delphi client that also allows the user to run scripts.
- My!Chat by Jason
- A new contender. Coded in VB6 and based on the source code for an old version of CheetaChat. Has working voice and spam filters.
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Yahoo's messenger now has a built in chat client. To be honest it sucks big time. The maximum font size is set to high, and it is so full of exploits that people with no lives find it amusing to make programs that allow users to boot or otherwise annoy people chatting thru messenger. My advice is get a decent chat client like those preceding this one and just use messenger for talking to your friends and sharing files. Yahoo Messenger now has IMViroments which are various and often interactive backgrounds for use in IM's ( NOT pm's )
- Trillian
- Trillian is a multi messenger. It can connect to AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC, Yahoo! and Jabber all at the same time. With the release of Trillian 3 it now also supports yahoo chat but in a limited way.
- Pidgin
- Pidgin (formely Gaim) is a messenger program that can be used to log onto MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber and more. It also supports Yahoo chat.
Unix/Linux Clients
- YahELite by Deepthawt
- See above for details. Runs on WINE.
- Gyach by buy_more_pepsi
- Gyach is a GTK+ based Yahoo! Chat client.
- Gyach Advanced by Phrozensmoke
- GYach Enhanced in a greatly improved version of the original GYach. It is an unofficial 'fork' of the GYach project.
- Zinc
- What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is "apparently" absolutely no Curphoo or Curfloo source code in Zinc.
- Pidgin
- Pidgin (formely Gaim) is a messenger program that can be used to log onto MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber and more. It also supports Yahoo chat.
Mac Clients
- Adium X
- Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team.
- Charla by Peter Ammon
- Charla allows you to connect to the Yahoo! Chat boards, in the same way that Yahoo! Messenger for Windows provides.
- ChitChat by GostCoder
- ChitChat is a Yahoo! Chat client. It enables the user to communicate with others over the global Yahoo! Chat network using an interface that should be comfortable for anyone who has used AOL Instant Messenger or a similar service.
- Zinc
- What is Zinc? Zinc stands for Zinc Is Not Cur(fl|ph)oo. Zinc is a Yahoo! chat client for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Zinc is written in Python and released under GPL. Zinc originally started out as a code fork of Curphoo 0.3.7 but it has been completely rewritten since then. Currently there is absolutely no Curphoo or Curfloo source code in Zinc.